2011 in Pictures—01.03.12
The new year has begun and college applications are creeping up on me, so I’ve decided to shamelessly steal someone else’s ideas. Inspired by this guy who was himself inspired by this other guy I’m going to post a picture for every month of the year.
Sort of.
I don’t have pictures going back before March of this year (I don’t even know what computer I would have been using at that point) and there was one month (August) where I had nothing that I could post on the wild wild internet without fear of it going badly. So this is really “12 pictures that are sort of vaguely grouped by month.”
Enjoy!
January
Nothing to see here…
February
Nothing to see here…
March
Some dangerous-looking props for a school project in another class. It was all styled after Angry Birds (and taught freshman kinematics, oh joy!)
This is from the FIRST Robotics Competition Regional in Los Angeles this year. The main cause for excitement here is that overly agressive Human Player throwing an inner-tube. It all looks silly but I assure you it’s very serious stuff.
April
A very nice looking piece of cake.
May
More food. (Bread!)
One of my cats, Skittles, stuck in a tree.
June
I worked at my school doing “network infrastructure upgrades” over the summer which really meant playing around with laptops on top of ladders for a couple months.
July
A scene out of the window of an airplane on the way to Kansas City, Missouri
Same as above but remarkably different in appearance.
August
I guess my enthusiasm dwindled here…
September
This big lump of fur weights 21 lbs. When he gets on my bed there’s no moving him.
October
I’m known to partake in racing from time to time, and this is the sad truth of it. Get up at 5:30 AM to throw your bike in the back of your car and drive out to some industrial park for a 45 minute race. All very unglamorous.
November
Cats will sleep however it pleases them to.
December
Same as above, only this time the cat decided to sleep on our Christmas Tree star…
This coming year.
I hadn’t expected this to be the case but I suppose one of my New Years Resolutions ought to be to keep up with my photography. I think my habit of carrying my camera with me everywhere I go will likely come back. Then instead of the current disheartening state of things where I have nearly one and half thousand pictures for a few months and only 400 are even immediately acceptable, I’ll have thousands upon thousands of them and the quality will be even lower.
Merry Christmas!—12.24.11
Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! (and such.)
It’s winter break, so it’s time to start some projects that I will almost certainly not maintain into my next semester of school. This year I opted to update my blog. Prior to this flymoore.com was driven by TextPattern, which is all well and good, except that I really never updated anything, and had forgotten how it all worked and how to get into it, and it really was overkill for a blog that had all of two posts on it.
So welcome to my new, jekyll-powered, git-published, and 320 and Up based blog!
I have to say that working with jekyll is always fun, because it is absolutely built with the mentality of a lazy programmer, and makes so much sense to someone that spends most of their day staring at bash terminals. The Less.js stylesheets provided by 320 and Up made mangling out the CSS much more enjoyable (parametric mixins are the coolest thing since sliced bread!). Even now, writing posts in Markdown makes much much more sense to me than any browser-based WYSIWYG editor I’ve ever tried to fight with.
If any part of this was unpleasant, it was getting the git-publishing to work. I had to rework my gitolite server, which is always scary and confusing, and then make a post-receive hook work. I almost hope to post this and let it pass and never look at it again because it really is atrocious.
I really don’t want to say anything else about this incredibly robust script other than, well it works, right now…
And an interesting fun-fact: Embedding gists in markdown/jekyll is a little more complicated than I thought it might be. If you just use the code given to you by github:
<script src="https://gist.github.com/1518791.js?file=post-receive"></script>Then markdown/jekyll will try to shorten it to:
<script src="https://gist.github.com/1518791.js?file=post-receive"/>Which will destroy your DOM tree, placing everything inside the script tag. To fix this all you have to do is put some “content” inside the script tag. I just did:
<script src="https://gist.github.com/1518791.js?file=post-receive"> </script>and voila it works! (as you can see above)
A New Website—12.24.11
Look at me, creating ANOTHER new Blog, this time with Jekyll.
P.S.: Anyone who can guess why I picked the colors I did gets a cookie. (And no it’s not because I like the Lakers.)
Tell your parents to vote there'll be more candy next year.—10.31.09
Beyond this year’s excuse for only giving out one candy bar per trickertreater (is there a standard unit for this?) of note was the costumes, or lack thereof this year. A very popular ‘costume’ seemed to be a backpack, a skateboard, and a cellphone. “Wait sorry I’m too busy to get off my phone to get candy from you.”
Was a fun night.
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